The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-08-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

nre was put OUT before tne arrival VI VIC
firemen.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Bowling
Green, o., ON the 4th The blaze started IN
a saloon, and before it could be checked
two whole squares were swept out and
twenty-five houses burned. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $40, 900.
THE press of New York City almost
unanimously agree with George William
Curtis speech that the Democrats are run
ming the National Administration.
JOSEPH YINGLING, a school tax-collector,
at Allentown, Pa, died July "a last, and
his accounts are now discovered to be
short to the extent af 1900.
THE receivers of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad Company gave notice
on the 4th, that from August the en-
ployes in the coal regions would be paid
semi-monthly instead Of monthly as
hitherto. The change is made in compli-
ance with recent act of the Assembly.
JUDGE CRAIG, of the Illinois Supreme
Court, denies the report that he has stated
that the court would refuse the condemned
Chicago Anarchists new trial.
In the Texas election on the 4th Prohi-
bition was defeated by an overwhelming
| vote. The returns so far are meager, but
are mostly one way.
! A FIERCE storm struck Sherman, Tex,
on the 9Th, doing considerable damage.
A STRIKE of street-car drivers was in
augurated at Memphis, Tenn, on the 9th.
A SEVERE drought prevails throughout
! Illinois and farmers are very anxious.
VIOLENT shocks of earthquake have been
| faIt Of lOaria A nuInbar of
houses were destroyed.
WIN. H. WETHERELL, of Kansas City, Mo-,
| aged thirty-six, committed suicide on tho
| 9th.
THERE were four new cases Of cholera
and four deaths at Malta on the 9th.
AN assignment was made by the Kansas
City (Mo.) Sirup Company on the 9th.
THE family of Rev. w. Z. A. West, the
st. Louis posoner, will leave Chesterton,
Ind, for London, Ont.
FIFTY tons Of rock fell in the eastern end
of the Cascade tunnel, now building by the
| Northern Pacific railroad, on the 4th, kill
ing four men and wounding several others.
1t is thought none of the wounded will die.
EIGHTY THOUSAND Abyssinians are
about to march on Massowah, and fears
are entertained that the Italian garrison
will be massacred.
LORD GEORGE DRUMMoND, grandson and
heir of the Earl of Perth, died on the 9th
at st. Luke's Hospital, New York, of con-
sumption. The deceased nobleman became
alienated from his family before he came
of age by contracting q marriage which
his relatives disapproved. His wife and
children are left destitute.
A PROMINENT Chicago gentleman, on q
pleasure trip, claims to have met McGar
lyle in Quebec on the 9Th, A man sup
posed to be McGarigle, it is said, took pas
sage on that day on a sailing vessel bound
for Gibraltar, passing himself off as an in
Valid although it was well known that hC
was in perfect health.
THE jury in the celebrated Culbreatf
lynching case, at Columbia, S. c., returned
verdict on the 9th of not guilty. The de
PENDANTS were severed so that only two o
the lynchers-William Parkman anC
Wyatt Holmes-were on trial, and upor
the announcement of the verdict tn,
States attorney entered nolle PROSE- a
to the other thirty defendants.
A DUEL took place on the 9th below tn,
slaughter-house, in st. Bernard Parish, La.
between Mr.. Emile Revoire, one of tn,
editors of L'Opinion, and Larrieu, Jr.
president of the club de la Democratiqu
Francois. The duel was fought witt
small swords and the result of the comba
was that Mr.. Larrieu received a Sigh
wound in the chest.
GENERAL PAYNE's yacht Voluntee
gained decided victory in the race on tn
9th for the Goelet cup, showing the entir
feet clean pair of heels and winning a
the jockeys say, Glands down."
MILLBRooK, Graham County, Kas., wa
almost destroyed about shutdown of tn
4th by straight wind coming from slight
ly west of north. The place contains abou
five hundred inhabitants. Only one house
residence, escaped serious damage
Four persons, one of them boy tire
q years old, were killed. About twenty-iv
| were injured.
| LEROY d. Brown, late Superintendent
/ of Public Instruction of Ohio, has bee
4 elected president of the State Universit
/, of Nevada, at a salary of $500 year an
travelling expenses. He is thirty -eigl
years old and a native of Ohio.
PARDAw WARsLEY, the celebrated Unio
spy of the Shenandoah valley, is dead. h
! passed away at his home at Foster Brool
4 N. Y, on the 3D., aged sixty years.
! THE Emperors of Austria and German
= = met at Gastein on the 9Th.
THE Irish Land bill passed its thin
reading ON the 9TH.
v BY fire near London on the 9th 81 ,25(
n 900 worth of property was destroyed al
= five lives were lost.
t THE Unionist leaders in Great Brita
h have determined on uncompromising no
Q tility to Gladstone's Irish policy from tn
r time on.
THE treasurer of DaviesS County, Inj
is short several thousand dollars in h
:: accounts, owing to his allowing himse
- :. to be imposed upon by pretended friend
u MILFORD Woodbury., president of Il
;, Mormon apostles, has temporarily assum,
y the leadership of the affairs of the Latt
. Day Saints.
% JEAN DURAND, whose father was COZ
modore in the early American navy, di,
=, in New York ON the 4th in abiect power
| at the aue of Over opa hundred vaarc nm